Today Vince Cable is best known as 'the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament' (Robert Peston) revered for his prescience & authority on the world economic crisis. But his journey to become Britain's most respected politician has been long circuitous & sometimes very painful. In this memoir he tells that story for the first time. Free Radical is a candid book written with wit & great insight. Vince Cable's life story is a long way from that of a conventional career politician. His book is as compelling as it is timely.